RE: UK to leave EU
March 27, 2017 at 11:28 am
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2017 at 11:32 am by Isis.)
(March 27, 2017 at 11:14 am)ukatheist Wrote: I don't mean to speak on behalf of MG, but I think he is referring to an assumption that those who voted to remain in the EU, would vote to leave the UK in the event of a second referendum (in other words, that those people would choose EU membership over the union). I tend to agree that membership of both is not favoured by May or the EU.
I personally agree that the issue is a bit more nuanced than that, and EU but not UK membership comes with it's own set of problems that weren't a factor in indyref1, such as the English/Scottish border, and trade with the rest of the UK, which I understand to be Scotland's biggest market (and far bigger than the EU) on whatever terms the Brexit negotiations produce.
That's not to mention those Scots who don't want to be in either.
Oh right, then he is correct. Not everyone who voted remain wants to leave the UK, but it is also possible that the whole thing has persuaded some (former) unionists to back independence. You are also correct in saying that we can't be a member of both. It just wouldn't work.
But hey, we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. A referendum on independence won't happen for a while and A50 hasn't even been triggered yet. I suppose we can only wait and see how the negotiations go.
